This image, taken from a video posted to Youtube, shows Mitchell Taylor, a Magnolia man charged with threatening to kill Seattle Mayor Ed Murray and councilwoman Kshama Sawant. Taylor, 32, is identified by police as the man shown in the video and others.

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Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, pictured speaking to students outside of the Chancery building for the Archdiocese of Seattle on Dec. 20, 2013.

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Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant, pictured Jan. 20, 2014 addressing a crowd at Westlake Park during an annual celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Seattle city council member Kshama Sawant speaks at Seattle City Hall during a rally and march to make $15 the minimum wage in Seattle on Dec. 5, 2013. (Joshua Trujillo, seattlepi.com)

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New Seattle Mayor Ed Murray descends stairs in City Hall on Monday, January 6, 2014 at Seattle City Hall before being sworn-in.

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Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant is sworn-in on Monday, January 6, 2014 at Seattle City Hall. Hundreds of people packed the lobby of City Hall for the swearing-in of city council members, the city attorney and the new mayor.

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Supporters of a $15 per hour minimum wage chant during a swearing in ceremony on Monday, January 6, 2014 at Seattle City Hall. Kshama Sawant, the new socialist councilmember, is a champion of raising the minimum wage.

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From left, new Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, City Councilmember Kshama Sawant and Sally Bagshaw sit in the VIP area during a swearing-in ceremony on Monday, January 6, 2014 at Seattle City Hall.

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New Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant is hugged by Nicole Grant on Monday, January 6, 2014 at Seattle City Hall before Sawant is sworn-in.

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New Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant speaks after being sworn-in on Monday, January 6, 2014 at Seattle City Hall.

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New Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant waves from the podium after being sworn-in.

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Seattle Mayor Ed Murray is sworn-in by former Governor and Ambassador to China Gary Locke on Monday, January 6, 2014 at Seattle City Hall. Hundreds of people packed the lobby of City Hall for the swearing in of city council members, the city attorney and the new mayor.

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Seattle Mayor Ed Murray speaks after being sworn-in on Monday, January 6, 2014 at Seattle City Hall.

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Seattle Mayor Ed Murray holds up a certificate with his husband Michael Shiosaki after being sworn in by former Governor and Ambassador to China Gary Locke on Monday, January 6, 2014 at Seattle City Hall.

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Spectators watch the swearing-in ceremony.

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Spectators watch the swearing-in ceremony.

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Spectators watch the swearing-in ceremony.

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Spectators watch the swearing-in ceremony.

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New Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, left, holds a certificate with Nicole Grant after Sawant was sworn-in.

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Spectators watch the swearing-in ceremony on Monday, January 6, 2014 at Seattle City Hall.

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Seattle Mayor Ed Murray speaks after being sworn-in.

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Seattle Mayor Ed Murray speaks after being sworn-in.

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New Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant speaks after being sworn-in on Monday, January 6, 2014 at Seattle City Hall.

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Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant is sworn-in on Monday, January 6, 2014 at Seattle City Hall.

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Spectators watch the swearing-in ceremony on Monday, January 6, 2014 at Seattle City Hall.

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Elected officials watch the ceremonies on Monday, January 6, 2014 at Seattle City Hall.

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Spectators watch the swearing-in ceremony on Monday, January 6, 2014 at Seattle City Hall.

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From left, City Attorney Pete Holmes, City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, Mayor Ed Murray, Councilmember Sally Bagshaw, councilmember Nick Licata, and councilmember Mike O'Brien pose for a photo after a swearing-in ceremony on Monday, January 6, 2014 at Seattle City Hall.

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New Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant speaks after being sworn-in on Monday, January 6, 2014 at Seattle City Hall.

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New Seattle Mayor Ed Murray and City Councilmember Kshama Sawant shake hands after being sworn-in on Monday, January 6, 2014 at Seattle City Hall.

A Magnolia man accused of threatening Seattle Mayor Ed Murray and Councilwoman Kshama Sawant was charged with a host of offenses Wednesday, including cyberstalking and hate crimes.

King County prosecutors contend Mitchell Munro Taylor threatened to kill Murray, the city’s first openly gay mayor, and Sawant, an outspoken socialist, in a series of vitriolic emails sent to both shortly after they were sworn into office earlier in January.

Taylor, 32, is alleged to have posted dozens of “frightening and rage-filled” messages on Murray’s Facebook page. Some of those messages referred to Sawant, Senior Deputy Prosecutor Gary Ernsdorff said in court papers.

“The posting included many homophobic slurs, a description of killing babies, rape and death references, and several menacing references to Harvey Milk,” said Ernsdorff, referring to the San Francisco politician and gay civil rights leader killed alongside that city’s mayor in 1978.

Currently jailed, Taylor is alleged to have left dozens of offensive posts on Jan. 14, nine days after Murray, Sawant and the rest of Seattle’s elected leaders were sworn in.

Writing the court, a Seattle detective said the Mayor’s Office contacted police after spotting the hateful comments.

The comments filed with the court show repeated nonsensical anti-gay slurs, a request that Murray kill himself and a threat to kill Mexican babies. The writer – Taylor, according to police – went on to assert feminists should be raped and that police should be killed.

Taylor’s Facebook page linked to a video which police used to identify him through state records, the detective continued. He was arrested Jan. 16 and has been jailed since on $600,000 bail.

Taylor was charged Wednesday with malicious harassment – the state’s hate crime law – and two counts of cyberstalking, as well as one count of harassment. He is expected to be arraigned Feb. 5 at the King County Courthouse in Seattle.